I remember those labels! I was a 7up man back then.
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Things You Don't See Anymore Part 3
- Thread starter Richland123
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those paint matched endura bumpers will always look ahead of their time. wow!
Stawberry Orange Banana was the bomb.
We were crazy when I was a kid. Lived in a nabe on a steep hill so everything was about gravity. Used to ride Bigwheels and slide out until the back wheels wore out. Then screwed a piece of Masonite on the bottom and went off road, sliding down dry grass slopes behind the houses. Lots of tumbles and stickers in the socks.
I had a Schwinn 20” 2-speed (shift by backpedaling) in metallic blue with a banana seat. Both of these bikes have ‘sissy bars’, the chrome bar holding up the back of the seat extending up a couple feet.
Totally free-range kids. I was outside all the time, and we lived in a cold climate, even in summer. There was a kid down the street with a German mom who’d forbid him from going more than 3 or 4 houses away. My mom called her ‘Mrs. Gestapo’.
Oh man! We stayed most of our pre-teen and early teen Summers at my Grandma’s with my Cousins along with our Bikes and BB guns…what a great memory. She lived near a large woods and creek and just like you we had to be home for dinner. My Grandma was the epitome of a Grandma. We were playing and just being kids. I wonder if this generation has the same experiences?
I had the great experience of two years at the end of grammar school at a fine private school with tuition paid by a merit scholarship, a place that had been the Crocker Mansion in Hillsborough, CA with extensive laurel and oak woods behind it. I was the leader of a gang of kids and played most of the days in the woods, pretending to be in WWII. We skipped a lot of classes but never got punished because we were otherwise good kids and there was nothing to rebel against there, just the best teachers in a great setting. Saw herds of hundreds of deer the first year.
